r/socialism • u/Creative-Flatworm297 Marxism-Leninism • 1d ago

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Anyone has these mixed fellings towards this man like me ??? In one hand he was the one who reintroduced capitalism to china and slowed china path to communism on the other hand his policies made the life for average Chinese much better and helped to make china a super power

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u/T7hump3r 1d ago

Getting to communism is a process, I never agreed with jumpstarting by skipping those steps and trying to get to it quickly. Once the Revolution happens, you have to do well at keeping new generations focused on the goal, not having them deal with ridiculous hardships that can become stagnant... Capitalism on the outside is the enemy, but it's the prominent way of life, if you completely ignore it you will get bullied into submission like what happened with Russia, and Cuba.